Motivational Quotes

Food and eating

More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

- Galbraith, John Kenneth

Best Quotes about Food and eating

A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart, who looks at her watch.

Beard, James

He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of taste.

Khrushchev, Nikita

Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.

Howe, Edgar Watson

A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.

Hitopadesa

I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

Bush, George

He who eats alone chokes alone.

Proverb, Arabian

If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

One should eat to live, not live to eat.

Franklin, Benjamin

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Proverb, Turkish

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No man is lonely while eating spaghetti; it requires so much attention.

Morley, Christopher

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The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

Lappe, Frances Moore

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Hors d'oeuvres have always a pathetic interest for me; they remind me of one's childhood that one goes through wondering what the next course is going to be like -- and during the rest of the menu one wishes one had eaten more of the hors d'oeuvres.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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We seldom report of having eaten too little.

Jefferson, Thomas

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Square meals often make round people.

Cossman, E. Joseph

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Sadder than destitution, sadder than a beggar is the man who eats alone in public. Nothing more contradicts the laws of man or beast, for animals always do each other the honor of sharing or disputing each other's food.

Baudrillard, Jean

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For much of the female half of the world, food is the first signal of our inferiority. It lets us know that our own families may consider female bodies to be less deserving, less needy, less valuable.

Steinem, Gloria

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There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Goodman, Paul

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I found there was only one way to look thin, hang out with fat people.

Dangerfield, Rodney

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God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A gourmet is just a glutton with brains.

Haberman Jr., Phillip H.

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I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.

Lancaster, Burt

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To eat is human, to digest divine.

Copeland, Charles T.

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Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Schiaparelli, Elsa

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A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.

Hubbard, Kin

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The soup is never hot enough if the waiter can keep his thumb in it.

Collier, William

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That food has always been, and will continue to be, the basis for one of our greater snobbism does not explain the fact that the attitude toward the food choice of others is becoming more and more heatedly exclusive until it may well turn into one of those forms of bigotry against which gallant little committees are constantly planning campaigns in the cause of justice and decency.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.

Orwell, George

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We know that every woman wants to be thin. Our images of womanhood are almost synonymous with thinness.

Orbach, Susie

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It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Appetite comes with eating; the more one has, the more one would have.

Proverb, French

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Much meat, much disease.

Proverb

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Put a knife to thy throat, if you're a man given to appetite.

Bible

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To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Worthless people love only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

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We are digging our graves with our teeth.

Moffett, Thomas

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A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.

Byron, Lord

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It ain't what you eat, but the way how you chew it.

Mcclinton, Delbert

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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Woolf, Virginia

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Roast Beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entr?es, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things ? la though you know that Roast Beef, medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

Ferber, Edna

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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Vries, Peter De

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Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half.

Montesquieu, Charles De

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Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they don't get fat is that they maintain a profligate level of calorie expenditure. The very same people whose evenings begin with melted goats cheese... get up at dawn to run, break for a mid-morning aerobics class, and watch the evening news while racing on a stationary bicycle.

Ehrenreich, Barbara

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More die in the United States from too much food that from too little.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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Avoid fresh meats, which angry up the blood. If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. Keep the juices flowing by jangling around gently as you move. Go very light in the vices such as carrying on in society. The social ramble ain't restful. Don't look back. Someone might be gaining on you.

Paige, Leroy ''Satchel''

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The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

Butler, Samuel

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The food here is so tasteless you could eat a meal of it and belch and it wouldn't remind you of anything.

Foxx, Redd

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Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it, or leave it.